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Conversations With God Trilogy

Conversations With God

by Neale Donald Walsch

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Destiny of Souls

Destiny of Souls

by Michael Newton

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Journey of Souls

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The Electric Jesus

by Jonathan Talat Phillips

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The Power of Now

By Eckhart Tolle

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by Theresa Chung

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by Naomi Ozaniek

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Many Lives, Many Masters

Many Lives, Many Masters

By Brian Weiss

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Fuck It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

Fuck It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

by John C. Parkin

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The Custodians

by Dolores Cannon

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Patrick from @bigseance and I got together a few w

Patrick from @bigseance and I got together a few weeks ago with Brian Smith from @grief2growth and Amber Choisella at @blossomandrise to talk about how much #spiritualbypassing has exposed itself in the spiritual community with regard to the #blacklivesmatter movement, how it’s connected to #patriarchy and #toxicmasculinity, and how #shadowwork is the root solution to the world’s current social ills.

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#spiritualawakening #spirituality #spiritualmentor #lightworker #spiritualethics #spiritualcoaching #shadowworker

There are times in life when it appears as though

There are times in life when it appears as though we are completely enveloped in darkness. All hope seems lost. Our hearts ache. The world as we knew it is crumbling all around us.

In times like these, it’s easy to fall prey to your limited perspective and to feel as though you can’t go on. All you see around you is the darkness. You cannot see what’s on the other side..
#“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” – Cynthia Occelli

We have conditioned ourselves to believe that when things begin to fall apart, it’s a bad thing. And because we believe this to be a bad thing, we have begun to fear it. We fear the very thing which allows us to grow.

At some point, the seed must come undone. Its self, as it knows it, must fall apart in order to expand and BECOME. “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.” -Chuck Palahniuk

Embrace your disaster. Surrender to change. Allow the transformation. Accept the pain and grow through it. Because you have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

The gardener never actually sees the seed sprouting. Usually, you just happen to look one day and there are the little new leaves, standing sturdily above the dirt where a day or two before there was nothing.

The entire world is about to change. If you watch carefully, you’ll see it sprout.

Critical thinking (the objective analysis and eval

Critical thinking (the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment) and self-awareness aren't necessarily the same thing, but critical thinkers tend to have self-awareness as a prerequisite.

We make the assumption that critical thinking is about evaluating and judging the world around us, but it's just as much about, if not more, evaluating and judging the way we SEE the world around us - that's where we develop objectivity.

If you still hold the same political beliefs as your parents did before you, as well as the majority of the people who live in the region where you grew up and/or currently reside, or if you still see yourself as the same person now that you were when you were 20, or if you still maintain the same religious ideologies that you were taught as a child - that might be a red flag that some self-examination is required.

Spirituality catalyzes evolution. If you haven’t evolved in the most deeply rooted, fundamental ways that you perceive the world around you, something’s not clicking.

Only when you've developed the ability to be self-critical can you truly think critically about the world around you.

That's what real spirituality–specifically shadow work–teaches us to do.

Attempting to deconstruct the world around you before deconstructing the world within you will not bear any meaningful fruit, because everything will still be a projection of the unexamined internal self.

[continued in comments👇🏻]

The funny thing about ego is that we are so often

The funny thing about ego is that we are so often unaware of it in ourselves–at least the shadow aspects of it.

When a spiritual person says "I'm not living in ego" or "I've dropped my ego," that's a dead give away that they are, well, still very much living in ego.

We can't kill or drop our ego. Our ego is literally our personality, our humanness. Some egos can be more conscious of themselves than others. We reach actualization through massive amounts of shadow work, meaning the uncovering of the subconscious aspects of ourselves. And through that process, we do a hell of a lot of healing, accepting responsibility for ourselves (rather than projecting), which is how we take back our personal power.

The thing we realize through that process is that our ego isn't something to be dropped or subdued. It literally can't be. It is something that we learn to manage. When you know that "ego" isn't a spiritual dirty word, you don't have to go around proclaiming you don't have it. Your words and actions speak for themselves.

I have an ego. I just try to keep it in check to the best of my ability and become as aware of it as I can be in any given moment. 👌🏻

#spirituality #ego #egodeath #egoistheenemy (ego is not the enemy because ego is your self) #egochallenge #selfawareness #selfactualization #egoawareness #knowthyself

Another something I wrote one morning in June: Ab

Another something I wrote one morning in June:

Abandonment is a term we’re all familiar with and have likely experienced to some degree in a relationship at some point–the guy you met on Bumble and dated for three weeks who ghosted you; the one you dated in college who moved away; the friend who broke up with you after a disagreement.

Then there’s traumatic abandonment. I don’t know if that’s an official psychological term, but if it’s not, I’m about to coin it. Traumatic abandonment occurs when someone you have developed a long-term, intimate emotional relationship with suddenly cuts off all communication without warning. It’s being ghosted, but not just by anyone–by someone you love and have a deep attachment to.

Traumatic abandonment leaves a devastation in its wake rivaled only by death–except it’s worse, because at least with death (suicide being the exception), the loved one didn’t choose to leave you.

The stages of grief are similar, though they come with one addition: confusion. First, you are confused. Why aren’t they responding? You make excuses. Maybe they’re just busy. Maybe their battery died. The hours go by and then the days. Maybe they lost their phone. Still nothing. After a few days, it begins to sink in.

Then comes bargaining: once you recognize the person has no intention of responding to you, you keep keep trying. You send text messages trying to fix things. You apologize, or beg for forgiveness, or forgive, or otherwise try to smooth over whatever happened, only to be met with more silence.  Next comes the anger. Why would they do this to you? How could they do this to you? How could anyone, but especially them–this person who said they loved you? How can they just disappear without saying a word?

Weeks begin to pass and the denial begins to work it’s delusion. You tell yourself they’ll come back. You build yourself up with hope. It gets you through the days. Every time your phone buzzes, you think, “Maybe it’s them.” And then you crash each time you see that it isn’t, until it happens enough times that hope becomes cynicism. (continued 👇🏻)

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the inside.

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 year

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 years on earth, I’ve never met one that I liked.
 And yet, every single fucking time I see one, I still think, “Maybe this time…” I pick it up. I take a bite. Nope. Still hate peanut butter cookies.  The fact that I still try it every time I see it thinking that maybe this will be the one and somehow my aversion will magically shift, all the while fully knowing I don’t like them and never have, is the definition of insanity. But that’s what ingrained behaviors do to us.  I’ve found myself exhibiting this same behavioral pattern in other areas of my life, particularly relationships. Falling for the same kind of people over and over. Giving them chance after chance, thinking somehow, this time, it would end differently. But it doesn’t. And I knew it wouldn’t, just like I know I fucking hate peanut butter cookies.  At some point you’ve got to look in the mirror and tell yourself, ‘You know you hate peanut butter cookies. You know you’d much rather have a snickerdoodle or a sugar cookie. The only reason you keep trying peanut butter cookies is because that’s the only thing available. And you know what? IT’S FUCKING OK TO GO WITHOUT THE GOD DAMN COOKIE IF IT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE REALLY LOOKING FOR.” And the same goes for romantic partners. And friends. And jobs. And any other hypothetical thing your peanut butter cookie could be a metaphor for.

Be willing to wait for what will fulfill you instead of trying to settle with what’s in front of you, lest you keep taking a bite and spitting it out because it’s disgusting. Every. Fucking. Time.

#standards #whatyouseekisseekingyou #raiseyourstandards #consciousliving #value #knowyourworth #consciousrelationships

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Patrick from @bigseance and I got together a few weeks ago with Brian Smith from @grief2growth and Amber Choisella at @blossomandrise to talk about how much #spiritualbypassing has exposed itself in the spiritual community with regard to the #blacklivesmatter movement, how it’s connected to #patriarchy and #toxicmasculinity, and how #shadowwork is the root solution to the world’s current social ills.

Link in bio!

#spiritualawakening #spirituality #spiritualmentor #lightworker #spiritualethics #spiritualcoaching #shadowworker

There are times in life when it appears as though

There are times in life when it appears as though we are completely enveloped in darkness. All hope seems lost. Our hearts ache. The world as we knew it is crumbling all around us.

In times like these, it’s easy to fall prey to your limited perspective and to feel as though you can’t go on. All you see around you is the darkness. You cannot see what’s on the other side..
#“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” – Cynthia Occelli

We have conditioned ourselves to believe that when things begin to fall apart, it’s a bad thing. And because we believe this to be a bad thing, we have begun to fear it. We fear the very thing which allows us to grow.

At some point, the seed must come undone. Its self, as it knows it, must fall apart in order to expand and BECOME. “Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.” -Chuck Palahniuk

Embrace your disaster. Surrender to change. Allow the transformation. Accept the pain and grow through it. Because you have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

The gardener never actually sees the seed sprouting. Usually, you just happen to look one day and there are the little new leaves, standing sturdily above the dirt where a day or two before there was nothing.

The entire world is about to change. If you watch carefully, you’ll see it sprout.

Critical thinking (the objective analysis and eval

Critical thinking (the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment) and self-awareness aren't necessarily the same thing, but critical thinkers tend to have self-awareness as a prerequisite.

We make the assumption that critical thinking is about evaluating and judging the world around us, but it's just as much about, if not more, evaluating and judging the way we SEE the world around us - that's where we develop objectivity.

If you still hold the same political beliefs as your parents did before you, as well as the majority of the people who live in the region where you grew up and/or currently reside, or if you still see yourself as the same person now that you were when you were 20, or if you still maintain the same religious ideologies that you were taught as a child - that might be a red flag that some self-examination is required.

Spirituality catalyzes evolution. If you haven’t evolved in the most deeply rooted, fundamental ways that you perceive the world around you, something’s not clicking.

Only when you've developed the ability to be self-critical can you truly think critically about the world around you.

That's what real spirituality–specifically shadow work–teaches us to do.

Attempting to deconstruct the world around you before deconstructing the world within you will not bear any meaningful fruit, because everything will still be a projection of the unexamined internal self.

[continued in comments👇🏻]

The funny thing about ego is that we are so often

The funny thing about ego is that we are so often unaware of it in ourselves–at least the shadow aspects of it.

When a spiritual person says "I'm not living in ego" or "I've dropped my ego," that's a dead give away that they are, well, still very much living in ego.

We can't kill or drop our ego. Our ego is literally our personality, our humanness. Some egos can be more conscious of themselves than others. We reach actualization through massive amounts of shadow work, meaning the uncovering of the subconscious aspects of ourselves. And through that process, we do a hell of a lot of healing, accepting responsibility for ourselves (rather than projecting), which is how we take back our personal power.

The thing we realize through that process is that our ego isn't something to be dropped or subdued. It literally can't be. It is something that we learn to manage. When you know that "ego" isn't a spiritual dirty word, you don't have to go around proclaiming you don't have it. Your words and actions speak for themselves.

I have an ego. I just try to keep it in check to the best of my ability and become as aware of it as I can be in any given moment. 👌🏻

#spirituality #ego #egodeath #egoistheenemy (ego is not the enemy because ego is your self) #egochallenge #selfawareness #selfactualization #egoawareness #knowthyself

Another something I wrote one morning in June: Ab

Another something I wrote one morning in June:

Abandonment is a term we’re all familiar with and have likely experienced to some degree in a relationship at some point–the guy you met on Bumble and dated for three weeks who ghosted you; the one you dated in college who moved away; the friend who broke up with you after a disagreement.

Then there’s traumatic abandonment. I don’t know if that’s an official psychological term, but if it’s not, I’m about to coin it. Traumatic abandonment occurs when someone you have developed a long-term, intimate emotional relationship with suddenly cuts off all communication without warning. It’s being ghosted, but not just by anyone–by someone you love and have a deep attachment to.

Traumatic abandonment leaves a devastation in its wake rivaled only by death–except it’s worse, because at least with death (suicide being the exception), the loved one didn’t choose to leave you.

The stages of grief are similar, though they come with one addition: confusion. First, you are confused. Why aren’t they responding? You make excuses. Maybe they’re just busy. Maybe their battery died. The hours go by and then the days. Maybe they lost their phone. Still nothing. After a few days, it begins to sink in.

Then comes bargaining: once you recognize the person has no intention of responding to you, you keep keep trying. You send text messages trying to fix things. You apologize, or beg for forgiveness, or forgive, or otherwise try to smooth over whatever happened, only to be met with more silence.  Next comes the anger. Why would they do this to you? How could they do this to you? How could anyone, but especially them–this person who said they loved you? How can they just disappear without saying a word?

Weeks begin to pass and the denial begins to work it’s delusion. You tell yourself they’ll come back. You build yourself up with hope. It gets you through the days. Every time your phone buzzes, you think, “Maybe it’s them.” And then you crash each time you see that it isn’t, until it happens enough times that hope becomes cynicism. (continued 👇🏻)

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the

How you look on the outside vs how you feel on the inside.

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 year

I really hate peanut butter cookies. In my 36 years on earth, I’ve never met one that I liked.
 And yet, every single fucking time I see one, I still think, “Maybe this time…” I pick it up. I take a bite. Nope. Still hate peanut butter cookies.  The fact that I still try it every time I see it thinking that maybe this will be the one and somehow my aversion will magically shift, all the while fully knowing I don’t like them and never have, is the definition of insanity. But that’s what ingrained behaviors do to us.  I’ve found myself exhibiting this same behavioral pattern in other areas of my life, particularly relationships. Falling for the same kind of people over and over. Giving them chance after chance, thinking somehow, this time, it would end differently. But it doesn’t. And I knew it wouldn’t, just like I know I fucking hate peanut butter cookies.  At some point you’ve got to look in the mirror and tell yourself, ‘You know you hate peanut butter cookies. You know you’d much rather have a snickerdoodle or a sugar cookie. The only reason you keep trying peanut butter cookies is because that’s the only thing available. And you know what? IT’S FUCKING OK TO GO WITHOUT THE GOD DAMN COOKIE IF IT’S NOT WHAT YOU’RE REALLY LOOKING FOR.” And the same goes for romantic partners. And friends. And jobs. And any other hypothetical thing your peanut butter cookie could be a metaphor for.

Be willing to wait for what will fulfill you instead of trying to settle with what’s in front of you, lest you keep taking a bite and spitting it out because it’s disgusting. Every. Fucking. Time.

#standards #whatyouseekisseekingyou #raiseyourstandards #consciousliving #value #knowyourworth #consciousrelationships

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